An Alphabetical Tour of The Vauxhall Conference.
No12 Hayes and Harlington
Hayes and Harlington were set up in 2007 when the Heathrow baggage handlers decided that it would be nice to play some football in between coffee breaks and strikes. There was a precedent for this with most other big airports around the country having football teams. Luckily for the baggage handlers, there was a vacancy for a football team in Conference South following several clubs going bust and not enough applicants from the pub leagues below and the following year the team, now called Hayes and Harlington won the Play Off Final against Hampton Wick Albion at the Bescot Stadium Walsall to qualify for the Vauxhall Conference.
The club plays at an old abandoned football ground just off Runway 45 Right and have plans to build a new stadium from Lego nearby on an old bunny rabbit infested piece of wasteland subject to the usual planning permissions.
So. There you have it. Hayes and Harlington. They’re near a big airport.
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